Who doesn’t want to be able to create a searchable website? Now ask yourself how to search a Flash website, I’ll give you a minute, still thinking?

First of all, I really haven’t found a way to actually search a flash swf - probably because it’s damn near impossible. Instead you have to keep your content separate and rely upon proven methods. When I say but a dream, really I mean there is a bit of magic involved that doesn’t solely rest on Flash. It requires keeping your data separate, most likely in the form of XML, either in an external file or statically coded in the HTML with CDATA tags, and then loading it dynamically into Flash.

Google can search the data and Flash reuses the same content - this site’s headlines are Flash using sIFR and reusing div data. I’ll expand on this later, for now, here are some links:

EXAMPLES

• An accessible bar chart
• SWFObject Example
• Content Injection with Flash, XHTML, and SWFObject

FLASH PLUG-IN TECHNIQUE

• SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script
• Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v3.20
• In search of… a perfect plugin technique
• Developing Flash websites using progressive enhancement
• SWFAddress
• SWFObject Posts
• Ripple

DEEP LINKING

• SWFAddress
• Flash Browser Back/Forward Navigation, Browser Title, Bookmarking and Deep-linking made easy with SWFAddress

CONTENT INJECTION

• Content Injection in Flash with XHTML and SIFR- Scalable Inman Flash Replacement
  
• sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses

SEO LINKS

• Search Engine Optimization for Flash Websites. We did it, here’s how
• A modern approach to Flash SEO
• How to Have Google Index Flash Websites
• Optimizing Flash for Search Engines
• Flash cannot be optimized to be search engine friendly
• Google - Webmaster Guidelines
• Sitemaps
• Google Chart for CSS, Javascript, DOM and Flash

Robots

• Google - Add your URL to Google
• Google - How do I use the robots.txt file analysis tool?
• How Google crawls my site
• The Web Robots FAQ…

Normal SEO

• SEO Tools : Keyword Playground
• Advanced Web Ranking 5.0 - software